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Feb. 25, 1930, H. o. LANGE F- 17,607

PILLOW AND CUSHION AND CASING FOR SAME original Filed Fe'b. 24. 1928Reissued Feb. 25, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HANS OVE LANGE, OFCOPENHAGEN, DENMARK PILLOW AND CUSHION AND CASING FOR SAME Original No.1,703,629, dated February 26, 1929, Serial No. 256,758, filed February24, 1928, and in Denmark December 24, 1927. Application for reissuefiled December 6, 1929. Serial No. 412,272.

The invention refers to a pillow, sofacushion and the like, and a casingfor same.

The invention consists in the pillows casing having superposed pocketsdecreasing in size upwards and/or downwards from a main pocket.

The attached drawing shows Figure 1 a side view of a pillow as perinvention; s Figure 2 the same as seen from above;

Figure 3 a cross section of same; and

Figure 4 a cross section of a different style of execution as perinvention.

In the pillow as per Figures "1-3, the filling material is put intothree superposed pockets a, and 0, decreasing in size in the directionfrom the pillows back towards its front. The pillow shown by Figure 4has likewise three pockets, d, e and f, but in this case the middlepocket (1 is the biggest, while the pockets at the top and bottom,respectively e and f, are smaller.

The pockets of the pillow can be filled either with the same or withdifferent materials. For pillows it would in general be preferable toput into the largest pocket a strong elastic filling material of goodcarrying capacity, e. g. bed feathers, curled hair or kapok, in the nextpocket a light half down, and in the third and smallest pocket, if any,a down.

As shown by the drawing, the pillow is made with two or more superposedpockets, decreasing in size from a main pocket which can be situatedeither at the bottom or inthe centre of the pillow, or in general can beany of the pockets in the pillow. It will be clearly seen from thedrawings that this decrease in size is in a lateral direction so thatthe superposed or supplemental pocket is of less lateral area than'themain pocket to which it is attached, and, as the supplemental pocket (orpockets) is (or are) located approximately centrally of the main orunderlying pocket this provides a marginal portion of the main orunderlying pocket which projects beyond the margin of the supplementalor superposed pocket, as shown in all the figures and especially inFigure 2.

-VVhen the pockets are filled with stufling or dlstending material itwill be observed from Figures 1, 3 and 4 that their edges are curved onarcs of circles Which merge into each other so that the surface of thepillow as a whole is of approximately uniform convex curvature.

The walls between these pockets can be single or double and the piecesof cloth are sewn or in some other way fastened to each other. Thepockets serve for receiving the filling material.

The pillow as per invention distinguishes itself by keeping the fillingmaterial in place, and because it can be filled with different kinds ofsuch materials according to the various purposes for which it is to beused, advantages not attainedby the kind of pillows known up to now. a

In pillows consisting of one pocket only, the filling material duringuse is forced towards the edges, with the resultthat the centre of thepillow OflIGISbllt deficient support. This is obviated'by the invention,inasmuch as the shifting ofthe filling material is restricted withineach separatepocket. When an ordinary pocket, in order to give aspecially soft support, is stuffed with a fine material, forinstancedown, it is apt to double up under the weight of the head, adrawback which especially in summer time or in warm climates can produceinsomnia and on the whole is unhealthful. In the pillow as perinvention, these drawbacks are overcome, as the smallest pocket only ismeant to be filled with down and the re-- maining pockets with less heatinsulating materials possessing greater carrying capacity. For thisreason the pillow as per invention is particularly suitable for use inhospitals, and the danger of placing babies on soft down pillows foldingup around the head, is obviated.

A pillow executed as shown by Figure 4 possesses moreover the advantagethat one side can be stuffed for winter use and the other one for-summeruse, by filling pocket e with a heat-insulating material, for instancewith down as being most suitable for use in winter, whereas pocket iwhen filled with a less heat-insulating material as for instance thesoft partiof feather vanes, gives a soft but cooler support for the headin summer time, which particularly is of advantage in countries withconsiderable variations of temperature: v 1 i i In spite of the abovementioned important properties, the pillow can be produced. at a lowerprice than the; ordinary kind of pillows used up to now, as forthelargest pocket a coarser and cheaper qualityof feathers can be employedwhich moreover has the advantage of being stronger and possessinggreater resiliency and carrying capacity; Of the dearer qualities ofhalf down and down intended for the smaller pockets, a minor quantityonly is required in comparison to the total weight; of the fillingmaterial. -'The casing or covering likewise can be made 6 cheaper, adown proof fabric being required only for the comparatively smallportion of the pillow which is-to contain down, while a casing for thecoarser filling material which forms the greater portion of the pillow,a 2'5 considerably cheaper fabric canbe employed.

' The invention is not restricted to the styles of execution shown anddescribed above, as they can be altered in different ways, especially asregards number, size andshape' of v v I v thepockets, without exceedingthe scope of I a s the invention. i Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to sec'ureby Letters Patent:

1; A pillow of the kind adapted'to be used as a bedding pillow, sofacushion or the like,

consisting of a: casing and filling material, said casing composed of amain pocket and a series ofsuperpo'sedpockets sewed on top 40 ofsaidmain pocket-,said superposed pockets decreasing in sizefrom the mainpocket.

2; A pillow or cushion of the class described, consisting of a maincasing filled with coarse material, a series ofsuperposed 1 5 pockets ofdecreasing size-sewed on the top of themain pockets, said pockets ofdecreasing size filled with fine soft material.

' 3. A pillow or sofa cushion provided with means forming a pockethaving a concavecl upper surface and outer convex margins projectingbeyondsaid'surface, covering material having itsmargins securedinwardl'yfrom the periphery of the means aforesaid to forma supplemental pocket,andfilling material in both said pockets, the exposed por tions of saidpillow having a substantially continuously curved contoun' HANS ovnLANGE.

